Today started off with prominent Brexiters Boris Johnson and Michael Gove pledging that a vote to leave the EU would result in the VAT on energy bills being scrapped — only to be contradicted by one of their own colleagues.

It was meant to be the “longest and tallest tunnel slide” in the world and cost just £5 for visitors to the London Olympic Park. But like every other scheme by London Mayor Boris Johnson, the costs are out of control.

London Tories were left red-faced at the weekend after footage emerged of activists in the marginal constituency of Ealing Central and Acton physically manhandling a Labour candidate — simply for talking to Boris Johnson on the street.